Sentences with phrase «better than a gasoline car»

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Agassi set up Better Place with the aim of using new technology to make electric cars more affordable and more convenient than gasoline - powered cars.

A near - future fuel - cell car would not be much cleaner than a well - designed battery - gasoline hybrid.

Experts on greenhouse - gas emissions tell me that every time my car burns a gallon of gasoline, I am putting more than 25 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as well as a smaller amount of methane, nitrous oxide, and various other toxic gases.

As attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prices.

Reliable and long - lasting diesel powered heavy trucks move our goods from coast to coast and diesel propelled cars offer better fuel efficiency ratings than those of gasoline powered vehicles, still American consumers seem hesitant to purchase these clean burning and economical cars as their primary source of transportation.

But, for the first time in electric car history, the EV is actually better than it's gasoline - burning counterpart.

While the car may pollute more than originally thought, I still feel good about the purchase because diesel fuel is more efficient than gasoline.

With its newly available turbo - diesel engine, the Range Rover Sport becomes a choice car for a road trip, pulling in 6 mpg better on average than its gasoline - fueled equivalent.

With claims of 22mpg in the city and 30mpg on the highway in the more efficient rear - wheel drive guise (adding all - wheel drive drops both figures by a couple of miles - per - gallon), it's comfortably the most efficient engine in the range, and better in many cases than what smaller, turbocharged four - cylinder gasoline engines in rival cars can muster.

Pro-diesel carmakers emphasize that diesel cars get 20 percent to 40 percent better gas mileage than gasoline equivalents, have better low - end torque and aren't a pain to sit behind in traffic anymore.

They get far better fuel mileage than gasoline powered cars, are readily available as late model used, and come in all sizes and price ranges.

The Good A completely electric powertrain marks the 2011 Nissan Leaf as the first of a new breed of car, and per mile, electricity costs about 70 percent less than gasoline.

It weighs less than 2,200 pounds and boasts the best fuel efficiency of any gasoline - powered car in Toyota's lineup, excluding the Prius.

You might think it's better to put premium gasoline in your car because you think it contains more cleaning additive than regular unleaded gasoline.

It is worth noting that a Tesla vehicle is over five times less likely to experience a fire than the average gasoline car and that there have been zero serious injuries or deaths for any reason ever, fire or otherwise, in a Model S. Over the course of more than 100 million miles driven in almost every possible terrain, weather and crash conditions, the Tesla Model S has consistently protected its driver and passengers, achieving the best safety track record of any car on the road.

Having said that, the current generation of mainstream hybrid cars (e.g. the Prius) and the newer pluggable - hybrids (e.g. the Volt) do get more than «a little bit better» gas mileage than conventional gasoline - fueled cars and are increasingly affordable.

I think that the best way is to develop populic trasfer and change car's style to electric car or hybird car, make them cheaper than gasoline cars.

So running your E-hybrid on the U.S. grid is 35 % better than running a Prius on gasoline and 65 % better than an average car.

I guess we would be somewhat suspicious when a research paper sponsored by the oil industry concluded that gasoline powered cars are better for the environment than electric cars... Anyways, the embodied energy of batteries definitely makes electric cars less sustainable than is generally assumed.

And the good news is that even running a plug - in hybrid on 100 % renewable electricity, the fueling cost per mile is still substantially lower than running a regular car on gasoline at current gasoline prices, let along what gasoline prices are going to be in the next ten to twenty years.

In less than ten years solutions for the storage problem will emerge — WUWT published a nice article on Zinc - Oxide batteries that might have the capacity and lack of «memory» to make a good base for large scale storage of daytime power and / or electric car batteries (where currently no battery approaches the energy content of gasoline).

Electric cars have long been better than gasoline - powered cars in many ways — they're a few times more efficient; they offer instant torque (excellent initial acceleration that's a lot of fun and very useful); they're much more convenient (plug in when you get home and never have to go to the gas station!)

I think the highlight of the survey - which, to be fair, was taken from a relatively small sample, though it might still be representative if the methodology was good - is the finding that more than half of LEAF owners said that they would not go back to a «conventionally - powered car» (gasoline or diesel).

In short: They're worse than a bike or mass transit, but better than a regular gasoline cars (especially if it's a huge unneeded SUV).

On the one hand, the many older gasoline cars still on the road — as well as the new gas cars being sold likely have much higher emissions than their official figures — suggest there's a long, long way to go before 85 grams becomes the norm across all cars in Norway.

Tesla was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers in Silicon Valley who wanted to prove that electric cars could be better than gasoline - powered cars.

Hybrid cars have good demand today and they have their value better than the gasoline automobiles.